Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality by Mark Banks

Abstract

Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and the cultural workplace. It offers a comprehensive and considered account of the state-of-the field in cultural studies and sociological thinking about cultural and creative industries work, education and employment, and seeks to address fundamental questions about the constitution of equality and inequality in the creative industries. Acknowledgements -- Introduction: cultural work and justice -- Justice for cultural objects -- Practices, ethics and cultural work -- Talent, merit and arts education -- The long day closes : access and opportunity in cultural work -- The wages of art : "basic economics" or basic inequality? -- Concepts for creative justice -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.